Marlene Scardamalia

Member Since: 1995

Marlene Scardamalia is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and director of the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science. She received her BA from Clarion State College, her MS from Bucknell University, and her PhD from the University of Toronto. Scardamalia has received the Ontario Psychological Foundation Contribution to Knowledge Award, the National Defense Education Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Her publications include The Psychology of Written Composition and Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise (both with Carl Bereiter) and Writing for Results(with Bereiter and Bryant Fillion).